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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• The Rose theatre is built by Philip Henslowe in Southwark.
• Torquato Tasso travels to Rome to stay with Scipione Gonzaga, Patriarch of Jerusalem.

New books

• George Gifford - A discourse of the subtill practises of deuilles by witches and sorcerers
• John Penry - The Æquity of an Humble Supplication
• William Rankins - A Mirror of Monsters

New drama

Poetry

• See 1587 in poetry

Births

• June 21 - Kaspar von Barth, German philologist (d. 1658)
• November 17 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist (d. 1679)
• date unknown
  • Michael Alford, English Jesuit writer (d. 1652)
  • Francesco Angeloni, Italian historian (d. 1652)
  • Nathan Field, English dramatist (d. 1620)
  • Arthur Johnston, Scottish poet (d. 1641)
  • Francis Kynaston, English poet (d. 1642)
  • Alexander Leighton, Scottish pamphleteer (d. c. 1644)

Deaths

• March 15 - Kaspar Olevianus, German Protestant theologian (b. 1536)
• April 18 - John Foxe, martyrologist (b. 1517)
• September 19 - Pamelius, Belgian theologian (b. 1536)
• November
  • Catherine Des Roches, French poet and author (b. 1542), and her mother
  • Madeleine Des Roches, French poet and author (b. c. 1520)
• date unknown
  • Dudley Fenner, English theologian (b. c. 1558)